Robert Sutcliff
Robert Sutcliff was the son of Abraham Sutcliff (d. 1799), a well-known physician of Settle and Paradise Square. Robert was born and educated a Quaker. In 1772, he was apprenticed as a cutler to Robert Trickett, of Pack Horse Hill, and was granted his Freedom in 1781. He registered silver marks with Anthony Sporle in Smithfield. Sporle, the son of a woolcomber from Norwich, had also been apprenticed to Trickett.In 1786, Sutcliff, Sporle & Co registered a trade mark ‘SS & Co’ at Kin....
